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#778770 - 12/14/09 01:12 PM
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kahalaboy
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Brian -
Sorry for the long radio silence. I've been busy promoting my second novel CAPTAIN NOBODY and just spent the month of November in New York in rehearsals for a reading of a stage musical. Back home, back to work on my next novel (no title yet), and very pleased to see that people are still reading and responding kindly to the interview that you and I did almost a year ago! I'm thrilled that you survived your own JPF Awards process... it sounded epic! Happy holidays.... Warmly,
Dean
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#778787 - 12/14/09 03:09 PM
Re: A Conversation With Oscar Winning JPF Member Dean Pitchford
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Brian Austin Whitney
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Congrats again this year Dean for your Grammy nomination for your new project Captain Nobody! Your success just keeps rolling along! We're all thrilled to live vicariously through the success of a good friend and you've been great about bringing us all along for a peak!
Brian
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#827025 - 06/24/10 01:39 PM
Re: A Conversation With Oscar Winning JPF Member Dean Pitchford
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Brian Austin Whitney
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There's been some questions about co-writing on another post and I think this interview addresses them from someone who obviously knows how it works at the very highest levels of success in the industry. Give it a read, there's lots of great info.
Brian
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#827391 - 06/26/10 12:04 AM
Re: A Conversation With Oscar Winning JPF Member Dean Pitchford
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ben willis
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Thanks for insisting on the read Brian. I'm working on it. It's a long read.
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#831872 - 07/19/10 05:54 PM
Re: A Conversation With Oscar Winning JPF Member Dean Pitchford
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Dan Sullivan
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Brian, Thanks for posting the interview. It was fascinating reading. Frankly, I had never heard of this guy (which says more about me than him), though I had heard of both "Fame" and "Footloose." He's led an interesting life and his successes in the entertainment business speak for themselves. Seems like a nice fellow, also.
Keep up the good work.
Edited by Dan Sullivan (07/19/10 05:54 PM)
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#831922 - 07/19/10 09:46 PM
Re: A Conversation With Oscar Winning JPF Member Dean Pitchford
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Brian Austin Whitney
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Dan,
That's alwaya been the unfortunate truth about people who write and create. They usually do it in the dark, behind the scenes and far from the spotlight and hoopla. But for many, they also get paid. In music, I'd much rather be a writer with 10 successful hits than the artist performing them with no writing credits. If you have a choice between fame and money, choose the money. You can have a much better life of your own choosing without spending it being told what to do by multi-national corporations every day. Dean is someone I look up to as a perfect role model for a creative person. Most people would be thrilled with any 1 of his areas of success. I'd be happy with simply having the freedom to enjoy attempting all the areas he's been a smashing success even if I never made a dime at it. To get both sides (success and creative freedom) has to be a surreal existance for mere mortals. Dean is clearly operating on a wildly different level than most of us could even imagine.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Brian
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#859366 - 11/21/10 08:57 PM
Re: A Conversation With Oscar Winning JPF Member Dean Pitchford
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Brian Austin Whitney
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I thought I would bump this post for those who are new and might have missed it. It's a great read!
Brian
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#870766 - 01/12/11 10:54 AM
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Brian Austin Whitney
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Hi Folks,
Just testing some posts out to make sure they are running properly again after some site maintenance.
Thanks,
Brian
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#884596 - 03/11/11 01:15 AM
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Jody Whitesides
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I saw the remake of Footloose this evening.
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#884678 - 03/11/11 10:29 AM
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Mike Dunbar
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I saw the remake of Footloose this evening.
Tantalist!
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#884686 - 03/11/11 11:25 AM
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Brian Austin Whitney
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I wonder how much of Dean's script and music they saved? The more they used, the better the movie would have been. The range of songs he wrote for that film are breathtaking. All those hits in different styles and different artists and all big hits and some have become inextricable tied to that era of life for anyone coming of age back then (as I was).
Dean has been such an iconic creator and his fingerprints are far more present in our lives than most people will ever realize.
Brian
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#885648 - 03/14/11 09:38 PM
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Jody Whitesides
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Same town, mostly the same characters in terms of the names. Entirely different in premise and the angle wasn't the same. Most of the music was the same songs, some of them the originals, some of them covers. One or two new songs.
THE Best part of the movie was the unveiling of what looked like the original yellow VW bug from the original movie.
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#885671 - 03/14/11 11:20 PM
Re: A Conversation With Oscar Winning JPF Member Dean Pitchford
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Brian Austin Whitney
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Haven't heard from Dean on what he thought of it all. Will be interesting to hear, but it seems odd they'd change the premise and story but keep the music and character names. I realize Footloose is a huge brand name to launch a movie with, but beyond that, wouldn't people be disappointed in not getting an updated version of the movie they thought worth re-doing?
Hollywood seems much worse than the music industry when it comes to this type of thing.
Brian
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#885690 - 03/15/11 03:31 AM
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Jody Whitesides
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It's got similar arc. They use a vast majority of the original story. They even use a lot of the same lines.
Somehow the magic didn't translate.
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#891015 - 04/08/11 09:22 AM
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2424
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Thank you very much.
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#891231 - 04/09/11 11:31 AM
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Brian Austin Whitney
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Hopefully Dean will stop in and say hi and update us on what he's working on these days!
Brian
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